Perfect Hero/Piece of Cake

Incredible to think that of the 7 Warbirds in that pic only 2 are still in the UK and only one of the two has flown in recent years. Nice pics Trumper, bring back old memories.

Will we ever see this sight again ?

another one at Duxford

These were taken at Duxford in 1989

I loved G-FIRE in the scarlet scheme. I’d love to see her returned to that scheme. I have that article too. After Spencer sold it on, my cousin was commissioned to make 3 silver models of her, Spencer got one, Ken Whithead another and i forget who got the 3rd. I went with him to photogragh her and was allowed to sit in her, the only Spifire i have ever sat in. When he was commisioned to make Rolls Royces Mk14 they cleared the hanger out and had a professional video made of it.

Does NH904 still have her strobes fitted? I remember seeing them – all too briefly – in the God-awful film Aces: Iron Eagle 3, where she was chasing after one of those funny European jet things with guns blazing – and rockets strapped to her wings! 😮

I always thought (after seeing a pic of her still in her G-FIRE days) that she only had them fitted in the cannons, but in the film there appeared to be strobes in the outer gun positions, too!

David Burke,

I am sure that Mike Searle, who wrote that article on G-FIRE, would be delighted with your comment/rating – I will pass it on. He is based in Arizona now.

Here is my little contribution to G-FIRE – a full ‘Airways’ panel that still looks basically Spitfire.

“Can you just fit this in?”

“I think we should have one of these”.

By the time we were finished we had a serious depletion of top fuel tank volume!

Mark

Originally posted by Mike J
The ‘Heinkel’ scene was filmed in Texas, with the CAF’s Spitfire IX (flown by Howard Pardue) and Casa. Both aircraft have since been destroyed, along with PL983 and G-BOML. With the loss of Mark Hanna, Nick Grace and Hoof Proudfoot, as well as, I believe, the camera ship helicopter pilot, it is sad to note the number of pilots and aircraft involved in this series which have since been lost to us.

Think the flight scenes in piece of cake are a great Tribute to Mark Nick and Hoof and its just one other way that these people have touched our lives,they fly on forever now.I remember watch the last show in series in bed after being a diffficult teenager and my late dad being p*ssed off at me,even then i was a huge aircraft fan.

“Funny, I always had an idea for a Battle of Britain movie – with Griffon Spitfires…!

(ducks the teddies)”

*Refuses to rise to the bait* :p 😀

Yes go for it!

Yeah that’d be great 🙂 Want me to PM my address?

Ant – I have a picture of her when she arrived at Hoylake circa 1968 with ‘Bunny’ Brooks . Whatever they paint her as she is still
to many G-Fire in the stunning red in their minds. Daz i have the article here and can copy it for you?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ant Harrington
“G-FIRE looks good no matter what she is painted as!”

Hmmmm I’d have to disagree there David,that BofB scheme on a low backed Griffon Spit just looks hideous if you ask me 🙁

Funny, I always had an idea for a Battle of Britain movie – with Griffon Spitfires…! 😀

(ducks the teddies)

Originally posted by Mark12
DDM,

And G-FIRE 😉

Mark

Photo by Jean-Francois Patte

Ahh, I’ve been looking for a photo of NH904 in that scheme!! 🙂

Would anyone have a copy of said G-FIRE article?

“G-FIRE looks good no matter what she is painted as!”

Hmmmm I’d have to disagree there David,that BofB scheme on a low backed Griffon Spit just looks hideous if you ask me 🙁 .
For anyone interested to know how the nose oft he old Duxford Comet is looking these days,follow the link for a piccy on Airliners.net taken last year.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=272045&WxsIERv=RGUgSGF2aWxsYW5kIERILTEwNiBDb21ldCAuLi4%3D&WdsYXMg=VUsgLSBBaXIgRm9yY2U%3D&QtODMg=SW4gU3QuIEFsYmFucw%3D%3D&ERDLTkt=VUsgLSBFbmdsYW5k&ktODMp=QXVndXN0IDE1LCAyMDAy&BP=0&WNEb25u=SWFuIEhhc2tlbGw%3D&xsIERvdWdsY=WEs2OTU%3D&MgTUQtODMgKE=Tm9zZSBzZWN0aW9uIGF0IHRoZSBNb3NxdWl0byBNdXNldW0sIExvbmRvbiBDb2xuZXkuIFRoZSByZXN0IG9mIHRoZSBhaXJjcmFmdCB3YXMgYnJva2VuIHVwIGF0IER1eGZvcmQgYXQgMTk5MiBhbmQgdGhlIG5vc2Ugc2VjdGlvbiB3YXMgc2F2ZWQu&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=MTc4&NEb25uZWxs=MjAwMi0wOS0wOA%3D%3D&static=yes

Mark 12 – G-FIRE looks good no matter what she is painted as!
The FlyPast article on her circa 1984 has to rate in the top ten of
FlyPast articles ever!

Daz,

Cheers for that!

Bl**dy hollywood!

I supose next it will be ‘Pilot Officer Buzz Lightyear’

DDM,

And G-FIRE 😉

Mark

Photo by Jean-Francois Patte

Originally posted by Bradburger
The Ju52 scene was the in the last episode I think when Moggy & “Amanda” shot it down.

It was masquerading as a Red Cross plane picking up a downed German pilot if I recall correctly.

Daz, regarding the CD, no probs. Just gotto get to grips wiht the thought of cleaning all the slides up!

Oh yeah, duh! Forgot that bit! 😀

“Get the Junkers.”
“But it’s a rescue-plane.”
“Get the b*****d. A quick squirt.” 😉

I’ll send you my address when you get the disk made up – cheers 🙂

Dez – there were four Spits painted up in the RF- markings: AR501 (RF-Y), BM597 (RF-C), EP120 (RF-M) and MV154 (RF-T).

Here’s a pic of BM597. Yes, the squadron codes are probably familiar to everyone as the codes of 303 (Polish) Squadron – so much for historical accuracy, as they were meant to be Eagle Squadron aircraft!